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ArticleIJU case reports2024

A case of neoadjuvant chemotherapy-resistant muscle-invasive bladder cancer that markedly responded to pembrolizumab before conversion radical cystectomy.

Ichiro Yonese, Noboru Numao, Kentaro Inamura, Yusuke Yoneoka, Ryo Fujiwara, Yosuke Yasuda, Tomohiko Oguchi, Shinya Yamamoto, Takeshi Yuasa, Junji Yonese

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Ichiro YoneseDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2607-1013
Noboru NumaoDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Kentaro InamuraDepartment of Pathology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Yusuke YoneokaDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Ryo FujiwaraDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6566-1430
Yosuke YasudaDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Tomohiko OguchiDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Shinya YamamotoDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0416-4697
Takeshi YuasaDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8924-6730
Junji YoneseDepartment of Urology, Cancer Institute Hospital Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Tokyo Japan.
Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research · JP

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Abstract

Introduction: Recently, perioperative use of immune checkpoint inhibitors has improved the prognosis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer. It is unclear whether radical cystectomy or systemic pembrolizumab is the optimal next treatment in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer and progressive disease in the pelvic lymph node following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Case presentation: A 62-year-old woman with cT3N0M0 bladder cancer and high programmed death-ligand 1 expression developed solitary obturator lymph node metastasis following 5 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Six subsequent cycles of pembrolizumab shrank the lymph node significantly, and conversion radical cystectomy was planned. Pathologically, only carcinoma in situ around the scar of transurethral resection of bladder tumor remained in the primary tumor, and the accumulation of foamy macrophages and fibrosis without viable tumor cells was observed in the dissected lymph node. Eighteen months passed without a recurrence following radical cystectomy. Conclusion: Pembrolizumab administration before radical cystectomy achieved a good response in a patient with obturator lymph node metastasis following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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bladder cancerconversion surgeryneoadjuvant chemotherapyneoadjuvant immunotherapy

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